Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:
1953
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/97
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 1: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INCUNABULA AND OTHER RARE BOOKS 6. AESOPUS. Vita et Fabulae. 51 leaves (the first a blank and genuine), Gothic type. Small 4to, full crushed brown levant morocco, blind-tooled, gilt edges, by Riviere; several marginal notations in an early hand. Milan: Philippus de Lavagnia, 1479. $950.00 ONE OF ONLY FOUR COPIES NOTED IN THE Gesamtkatalog, and the only one known to be in America. A fine copy of this very rare edition. Contains the “Life” and “Fables” translated into Latin by Rinucius. Stillwell A-99; GKW 338; C95; BM VI, p. 708. 7. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. Commentum in librum Alberti De secretis mulierum. (Cum expositione Henrici de Saxonia). 56 leaves, Gothic type; some capitals painted in red, rubricated throughout. Small 4to, contemporary wooden boards and clasp, modern morocco back. [Venice: Adam de Rottweil], 1478. $175.00 FIRST DATED EDITION, preceded by the undated edition printed in Perugia, the only known copy of which is in the British Museum. The work treats of childbirth, the foetus, miscarriages, etc., and was one of the most popular books on obstetrics in the fifteenth century. Over fifty editions appeared before 1501. One of four copies located in the United States. Stillwell A-289; GKW 763; Hain 563; BM V, p. 249; Klebs 26.02; Osler, Inc. Med., 146. About the authenticity of the “De secretis mulierum,” see Sarton II/2, p. 941, and Thorndike, Vol. II, 720-50. 8. ALVAROTUS, JAcosus. Super feudis. 372 leaves, Roman type, double columns. Thick folio, stamped pigskin over wooden boards. Venice: [Printer of the 1477 “‘Alvarotus’’], 1477. $350.00 FIRST EDITION of an interesting law book. A beautiful volume and a fine copy of the title- book of this press in the original pigskin binding, blind-stamped with a design including the Tudor rose, the four-leaved rose, the fleur-de-lis, the scroll “maria” and five-line fillets, with the original paper label on front cover. Jacobus Alvarotus was a celebrated lawyer and judge in Florence and Siena and a pro- fessor at Padua, noted for his learning in both civil and canon law, who died in 1453. This first edition of his important commentary on feuds includes the additions by Matthaeus de Corbellinis and Montorius Mascarellus. Stillwell A-484; GKW 1589; Hain 886; BM V, p. 259. iil
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